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Engineer Corps Says It Had Waterway Authority; 69 Documents Admitted

By WAYNE KING Special to The New York Times ();

January 30, 1979,

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GREENVILLE, Miss., Jan. 29--Lieut. Gen. John W. Morris, Chief of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, maintained in Federal Court today that the disputed authority to expand the design of the giant Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway had been granted by the Secretary of the Army and properly financed by Congress in subsequent yearly appropriations.

January 30, 1979

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